Brandon (Big Benz) Martin, was born on August 6, in Dumfries, Virginia. His family consists of two single parents and nine younger siblings. At the age of nine his parents split up and he was forced to live with his grandmother. She took care of him from the age of eleven to fourteen. While his grandmother was taking care of him, he went to an assortment of middle schools and high schools. Big Benz wrote his first rhyme at the age of fourteen. At the age of sixteen, he built his first studio in the home and started making mix CDs. When he was eighteen he dropped out of high school. He also made his first mixtape called, “City Under Siege”. 
 At nineteen, Big Benz had his first son. At age twenty, he had his first show in Herndon, Virginia. At age twenty-two, he has his second son. At age twenty-three he opened for his first big artist, Beanie Sigel. Since then Big Benz has done over seventy shows in southern Virginia, Chicago, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington, DC. Big Benz also opened for other artists such as Cassidy, Freeway, Beanie,Joe Budden, Pusha T and Lloyd Banks just to name a few.